We ran the randomiser over all the SNES and Mega Drive games currently on the Nintendo Switch Online service, came up with three games from each console, played 'em and now we rank 'em. This episode features, for the SNES: F-Zero, Psycho Dream and Wild Guns, and for the Mega Drive: Earthworm Jim, Space Harrier 2 and Strider. Say hi on Twitter or BlueSky @winnerisyoupod
Jul 11, 2025•2 hr 10 min
Another draft, another KDB appearance, another pod full of fun, elation, surprises, dismay, a winner, two losers and a whole heap of rambling. Speaking of rambling, skip to 34:22 if you want to get straight into the draft and avoid a whole heap of spoilers for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Come say hi to us on Twitter or BlueSky @winnerisyoupod, please rate/review on your platform of choice, and check us out on YouTube instead if you want to look at men with beards. Oh, and thanks to TerraPlayer ...
Jun 20, 2025•2 hr 24 min
You know us. We love a good moan. Especially David, but ESPECIALLY Alex. We feed our blackened hearts with pure, grade A disappointment, so we're serving it up for your, hopefully more optimistic, palates. We take 10 disappointing moments or trends from gaming history and stick them in a tier list. Nintendo, GAME, Rare, Sony, Microsoft - they all better watch their backs. We're coming for 'em. Tell us your disappointments over @winnerisyoupod on X or BlueSky, and please rate/review on your platf...
May 20, 2025•2 hr 14 min
It's time for a good ol' fashioned knockout tournament! In the first of a new pod format (that we will continue to run with whether you like it or not), we're hosting a tourney to crown the king of the first person shooters. 12 games enter, 8 progress to the knockouts to be randomly drawn against each other on the road to the final. What will win? Halo? Half-Life? Goldeneye? Doom? Call of Duty? You better listen to find out. Rate/review on your pod platform of choice, and say hi @winnerisyoupod ...
May 09, 2025•2 hr 14 min
It's been a huge week to be a Nintendo fan, for good and bad. We're here to condense and deliver as much information and opinion from the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct, and all the information trickling out since, as we possibly can just for you. To round out the episode, we celebrate the console that came before with our individual top 10 lists of Switch 1 games. Come say hi on Twitter or BlueSky @winnerisyoupod and we'll see you next episode for Genre Wars pt.1 - FPS Games.
Apr 07, 2025•2 hr 26 min
It's a movie and a game for you lucky people! That's right, we're ready to believe you... want to hear us discuss the 1984 classic movie Ghostbusters AND Ghostbusters: The Video Game. We love the movie, we... kinda like and respect the game. There is absolutely nothing extraordinarily bad about this podcast. Yes, it's true, this man has no dick. Say hi to us on BlueSky @winnerisyoupod and we'll see you next time for a Switch 2 Direct reaction pod + our Top 10 Switch games of all time....
Mar 31, 2025•1 hr 59 min
It's finally here, lads. We go deep into covering all the wonderful Dishonored games, right from the 2012 original through all the DLC and onto Dishonored 2 and Death of the Outsider. It's safe to say we adore these games. The main two are both 10/10s. We'll fight anyone who says otherwise. Say hi @winnerisyoupod on Twitter or BlueSky and get ready for March Movie Madness up next!
Mar 11, 2025•1 hr 59 min
Once again we bring in KDB to join us picking 10 video games each, this time from the year 2010, and trying to get the highest total Metacritic score. This is an epic, folks. Banger game after banger game, a photo finish down to the last game for second place, records broken, and a bonus 2025 fantasy draft for a bonus point in the league table. Please rate and/or review us on your pod platform of choice and tell your gaming buddies how rad this pod is. Come say hi to us @winnerisyoupod on Twitte...
Feb 28, 2025•1 hr 42 min
Oh bugger, this is already getting messy. We're back with another 15 rock solid Xbox 360 games to add in to our burgeoning top 100 list. So you can follow along while listening, the current top 15 before recording looked like this: Dead Space Gears of War Portal 2 Batman: Arkham Asylum Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Bioshock The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Binary Domain FIFA 10 Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed Alan Wake Left 4 Dead 2 Resident Evil 5 Limbo Split/Second Velocity Will Binary Do...
Feb 19, 2025•2 hr 38 min
We may be halfway through January already, but 2024 doesn't officially end until we've decided our prestigious Game of the Year Awards! The categories, as is now the standard, are: Best Story, Best Gameplay, Most Bullshit, Best Surprise, Worst Game, Outsider Award (best non-pod game), Best Game, Most Anticipated 2025 Podcast Game, and Most Anticipated 2025 New Release. Enjoy the rambling, long awards show and tell us what you thought over @winnerisyoupod on either Twitter or BlueSky (preferably ...
Jan 17, 2025•2 hr 44 min
What a way to close out 2024, eh? There's something quintessentially Christmassey about sticking on an Indiana Jones movie, so we decided we'd play one in Machine Games' latest masterpiece. We dive deep into the gameplay, story, mysteries, puzzles, characters, combat and much, much more. Say hi to us on Twitter or BlueSky @winnerisyoupod and have a bloody brilliant new year. See you in 2025!
Dec 31, 2024•2 hr 2 min
Snaaaaake Eeeeeeeaaaaaterrrrrrrrrrrrrr! That's right, we're rounding off the original MGS trilogy with what many believe to be its finest hour. Join us in celebration of MGS3's 20th birthday as we have a deep dive into its gameplay, impact, bosses and all the insane details you may have missed! Come say hi to use on Twitter or BlueSky @winnerisyoupod
Dec 13, 2024•2 hr 15 min
Happy birthday, PlayStation, you old bastard! 30 years of Sony's iconic, game-changing machine needs to be acknowledged and celebrated with more than just a grey PS5 controller, so we're here to throw a proper party. We've got memories of the console, anecdotes from childhood, a look through our PS1 games collections and our individual top 10 lists of PS1 games. It's a warm and fuzzy pod for those cold winter nights. Follow us on Twitter or BlueSky @winnerisyoupod, and give us a rating or review...
Dec 02, 2024•2 hr
Don't feel old, mate. We're all in this together, ageing like fine wine. Has Halo 2 done the same, or is it old and embarassing like your dad? We talk through everything - gameplay, story, marketing, multiplayer, the 2014 remaster and much, much more. Say hi @winnerisyoupod on twitter and/or BlueSky, watch us on YouTube, and please rate/review on your platform of choice - it probably helps.
Nov 23, 2024•1 hr 52 min
Yeah, not the remake. We both bought the terribly-optimised PC version and... nah. Unplayable. But hey, the original Silent Hill 2 is a masterpiece and one of the greatest horror games, if not the greatest, ever made. We have an epic chat about this seminal, groundbreaking game that is just as unsettling now as it was in 2001. Trigger warning: this podcast contains discussions about sexual assault, mental illness, terminal illness, euthanasia, suicide and more dark topics that you probably alrea...
Oct 27, 2024•2 hr 11 min
It's spooky season once again, and we are nothing if not men of tradition. It's a two-parter this year, and first up is a game we've wanted to play for years: Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. A GameCube launch window gem, this game has a still-unique sanity system that brilliantly fucks with the player, some great puzzling, a deep magic system, top voice acting and much more to recommend. All of which you'll hear in this episode. Say hi on Twitter @winnerisyoupod, rate/review/sub on your plat...
Oct 15, 2024•1 hr 50 min
The final game before Spooky Season is a strong contender for game of the year, and the best 3D platformer in bloody ages (and we do love one of those on this pod) - it's the PS5-chugging Astro Bot. As a little bonus, Alex relays all the mad games he played while abject and directionless as David was away on a cruise for two weeks. Say hi @winnerisyoupod on X, awinnerisyoupod on Instagram, or @winnerisyou on BlueSky. We're also on YouTube if you want to watch us while we chat, you fackin' perv....
Sep 30, 2024•1 hr 36 min
Sometimes you just have the play the ball as it lies. We made this bed to finish Summer of Resi 2024 with the remake of Resident Evil 3 so, by god, we had a lie in it. Is it really as bad as people say (not really)? Is it a terrible remake of the original (pretty much)? We have some pretty strong feelings on this one, and there are many laughs to be had along the way. Hey! Rate this podcast 5* and tell your mates! Hey! We're on BlueSky now because Elon is a weapons grade bellend! We're still on ...
Sep 07, 2024•1 hr 53 min
We got to 100 episodes and went mad! As promised, we bring to you the first part in our magnum opus. Based on ranking the Xbox 360 as our favourite console back in episode 82, we promised you we'd eventually rank the top 100 games on the system. That begins now. We'll be hitting 15 games per episode until the final part, which will be the final 10. Some of the below games may never leave the top 10, but you'll have to keep coming back to find out! Up for ranking in this episode are: Alan Wake Ba...
Aug 30, 2024•2 hr 19 min
It's back to the originals again, boys and girls, as we tackle what is arguably still the jewel in the Resident Evil crown, 1998's Resident Evil 2. We talk the story, the development, the RPD, the differences between this and the remake, all the differences in the A/B campaigns and much more! Say hi @winnerisyoupod, email awinnerisyoupod@gmail.com and please tell your buddies about us - it'd really help x
Aug 23, 2024•1 hr 54 min
Summer of Resi proper begins with what is still arguably the greatest remake of all time - the 2002 GameCube behemoth that is Resident Evil. We dive deep into the game's development, the extended lore of the Trevor family, the differences between it and the 1996 original, and much more! If you want to play the PC version of Resident Evil HD Remaster with the shiny and gorgeous graphics mods like we did, then head over to: https://www.nexusmods.com/residentevilbiohazardhdremaster/mods/6 Like/rate...
Aug 06, 2024•1 hr 47 min
We kick off our third annual Summer of Resi by bringing in KDB for a special video game draft - this time picking only Resident Evil games! The list with the highest total Metacritic (or GameRankings archive if the game is too old) wins! This one has some real shite in it towards the end. Resi history is a mixed bag as we all know! Say hi @winnerisyoupod and rate/review/sub on your pod platform of choice
Jul 30, 2024•1 hr 22 min
We satiate our hunger to get started with Summer of Resi by diving deep into the wonderfully nostalgic indie survival horror gem, Crow Country. Developed mostly by one man, this truly is a gloriously reverential homage to classic Resi that stands as a veritable masterpiece in its own right. Like, rate, review, subscribe! Come say hi @winnerisyoupod
Jul 18, 2024•1 hr 29 min
A few episodes ago we late fate decide six games we were going to play, all from the SNES and Mega Drive libraries available on Nintendo Switch Online. Those games were: Battletoads in Battlemaniacs Claymates Comix Zone Kirby's Dream Land 3 Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master Target Earth It's safe to say we didn't love most of these, but if you know one thing about this podcast, it's that things generally get more entertaining the angrier we get! Rate/review/sub on your pod platforms, check...
Jul 10, 2024•1 hr 45 min
Steel thy earphones and get ready for a 10th birthday celebration for the almighty indie gem that is Yacht Club's Shovel Knight. We take a deep dive into every main stage of the game, the bosses, the music, the development, the Kickstarter, and more! If you're playing the game to mark the anniversary, you need this pod! Rate/review/subscribe! Say hi @winnerisyoupod
Jun 26, 2024•1 hr 45 min
Summer may finally be picking up, but it's still pretty drafty in here! We welcome back the handsome KDB for the 2009 Video Game Draft! As always, we pick 10 games each, all from 2009, and then tot up their metacritic scores to decide a winner. Rate/review/subscribe. Say hi @winnerisyoupod. See you next time for Shovel Knight!
Jun 20, 2024•1 hr 10 min
It's MAYtroidvania... in June! Sorry for the delay on this one, lads, but life stuff got in the way. Speaking of life stuff, Alex's audio had to take a hit on this episode in order to remove the background screaming of his two-year-old daughter's unfortunatley-timed hissy fit (when she should have been asleep like a good girl). Spare a thought for Mrs. Alex who had to try and calm down the little mite! Anyway, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is a proper banger. One of the best metroidvania game...
Jun 13, 2024•1 hr 40 min
It's a top 10, kinda top 20, list episode! Alex and David both have their own personal top 10s of Mega Drive and SNES games, mixing both platforms to create the ultimate list of 16-bit classics. Cue a lot of Alex saying he didn't include certain games because he's shit at them, David adding most of Alex's to his backlog, and both of them not giving a tiny rat's arse if you disagree with their picks - it's all subjective, lads. Rate/review on your pod platform, and tell us your favourite SNES and...
May 24, 2024•2 hr 29 min
We don't need to introduce this one. It's Halo. Halo is GOAT. Come say hi over @winnerisyoupod or email us awinnerisyoupod@gmail.com Rate/review on your pod platform of choice please! See you next episode for MAYtroidvania 2024!
May 10, 2024•1 hr 30 min
Imagine if we did a bait and switch and halfway through the pod we just start talking about fucking Roblox or something. That's what you did to us, Kojima! Nah, Raiden's alright with us. He's had a rough life. Probably just misses his old glasses. But yeah, we're talking about Metal Gear Solid 2 and it's one of the best pods we've ever done. If you don't listen, don't blame us for your lack of enlightenment. Come say hi @winnerisyoupod, rate/review on your pod platform of choice and we'll see yo...
Apr 26, 2024•1 hr 50 min
